This City Gal Has Given Up the Farm
Whoopi Goldberg, who has long had a home in the Los Angeles area, has sold her 13-acre Connecticut farm for $915,000.
The Oscar-winning Goldberg (best supporting actress, “Ghost,” 1990), who produces and appears on the new “Hollywood Squares” game show, has owned the home, in rural Litchfield County, since 1991. She restored the five-bedroom, 4,000-square-foot Colonial-style farmhouse, built in 1860.
The house has a sun room, workshop, two fireplaces and cathedral ceilings. Goldberg continues to own an adjacent 27-acre parcel of raw land.
The farm, previously owned by the Gannett publishing family, was sold to an attorney with international clients. The asking price was $975,000.
Goldberg sold the property because she wasn’t using it. The stand-up comic and founding member of Comic Relief plays a nurse in the movie “Girl, Interrupted” and stars in the pilot of “Strong Medicine,” a television series that she will produce.
Seymour Surnow of the Surnow Group at William Raveis Real Estate in Washington Depot, Conn., had the listing.
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Denzel Washington and his wife, Pauletta, have sold their Toluca Lake home of about seven years for close to its asking price of about $2 million.
The Oscar-winning Washington (best supporting actor, “Glory,” 1989) won the best actor-drama award at the Golden Globes in January for his portrayal of former boxer Rubin “Hurricane” Carter in the movie “The Hurricane.”
The actor, 45, and his family moved to a new home in a gated community.
Designed by architect Paul Williams and built in 1940, the 6,000-square-foot-plus Toluca Lake home, owned by the late actor William Holden during the 1950s, has five bedrooms, a guest cottage and a pool with a cabana.
Barbara Robinson of DBL Estates, Beverly Hills, and Stephanie Jex of Fred Sands Estates, Sherman Oaks, had the listing.
Andrew Manning of Fred Sands Estates, Studio City, was the selling agent.
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Ken Aguado, a producer of the upcoming movie “The Salton Sea” (starring Val Kilmer), and his wife, Kylene, have purchased a home for about $1 million in the Fryman Canyon area of Studio City.
The producer, former CEO of Kings Road Entertainment, recently joined actor-director Eriq La Salle, a regular on the series “E.R.,” and D.J. Caruso, who will direct “The Salton Sea,” at Humble Journey Films, which just closed a three-year production deal at Warner Bros.
Built in 1950 and recently renovated, the Aguados’ new home has four bedrooms in about 3,800 square feet, behind gates. It also has a pool and spa.
Laurie Cohn and Norma Sayour of Fred Sands’ Studio City office represented the buyers, who are in their 30s.
Hot Property runs Thursdays in SoCal Living and Sundays in Real Estate. Ryon may be reached at ruth.ryon@latimes.com.
